Puppet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Puppet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Puppet over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 390 309
Rank change year-on-year -160 -81 -115
Permanent jobs citing Puppet 388 821 2,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.84% 1.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.93% 5.76% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 287 485 961
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +14.58% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Puppet is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,864 14,258 30,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.55% 14.67% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,020 8,824 14,026
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Puppet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Puppet.

Salary trend for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Puppet over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Puppet in the UK

Puppet
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -126 368 £70,000 -3.45% 80
UK excluding London -124 257 £60,000 -12.73% 52
South West +6 139 £52,500 -26.06% 15
Work from Home -74 137 £70,000 -6.67% 49
London -43 127 £75,000 - 30
South East -53 46 £65,000 -1.52% 12
North of England -60 34 £52,500 -22.22% 9
North West -53 22 £52,500 -16.00% 4
East of England -5 14 £63,750 +41.67% 6
Yorkshire +41 11 £42,894 -38.72% 3
Scotland -87 9 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Midlands -28 7 £87,500 +29.63% 7
Wales 0 6 £50,685 - 3
East Midlands -22 5 £87,500 -12.50% 1
Northern Ireland +27 3 £70,000 -6.67% 1
West Midlands -16 2 £80,000 +18.52% 6
North East -5 1 - - 2

Puppet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (10.82%) Apache
2 32 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.67%) OpenStack
4 14 (3.61%) nginx
5 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.55%) Confluence
6 6 (1.55%) JBoss
7 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.03%) Drupal
8 3 (0.77%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 268 (69.07%) AWS
2 203 (52.32%) Azure
3 102 (26.29%) OpenShift
4 86 (22.16%) GCP
5 53 (13.66%) SaaS
6 48 (12.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (11.08%) Serverless
8 41 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (8.25%) Datadog
11 29 (7.47%) IaaS
12 28 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (6.44%) PaaS
15 23 (5.93%) GitHub
16 21 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (4.90%) Amazon S3
18 14 (3.61%) Azure AKS
19 13 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 10 (2.58%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 79 (20.36%) DNS
2 63 (16.24%) TCP/IP
3 60 (15.46%) HTTP
4 56 (14.43%) DHCP
5 43 (11.08%) Firewall
6 28 (7.22%) AMQP
7 18 (4.64%) VPN
8 17 (4.38%) SNMP
8 17 (4.38%) VSAN
8 17 (4.38%) WAN
9 16 (4.12%) SSL
10 15 (3.87%) LAN
11 13 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (3.35%) Internet
11 13 (3.35%) OSPF
12 12 (3.09%) tcpdump
13 10 (2.58%) BGP
13 10 (2.58%) IPsec
14 8 (2.06%) EIGRP
14 8 (2.06%) IGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.08%) Big Data
2 32 (8.25%) MySQL
3 30 (7.73%) Hadoop
4 28 (7.22%) Cloudera CDH
5 21 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (4.64%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.09%) MariaDB
9 11 (2.84%) Redis
10 10 (2.58%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.55%) InfluxDB
13 4 (1.03%) Power BI
14 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
15 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
16 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 98 (25.26%) Jenkins
2 93 (23.97%) Git
3 59 (15.21%) GitLab
4 22 (5.67%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.58%) Subversion
5 10 (2.58%) Team Foundation Server
5 10 (2.58%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.06%) Maven
6 8 (2.06%) Selenium
6 8 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.80%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.80%) JIRA
8 5 (1.29%) JUnit
9 3 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.77%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.77%) TestNG
9 3 (0.77%) Travis CI
9 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
10 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
General
1 67 (17.27%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.14%) Aerospace
3 32 (8.25%) Finance
4 30 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.64%) Banking
6 17 (4.38%) Retail
7 13 (3.35%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.32%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.03%) Marketing
13 3 (0.77%) Advertising
13 3 (0.77%) Automotive
13 3 (0.77%) Law
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 108 (27.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 99 (25.52%) Senior
3 67 (17.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 47 (12.11%) Lead
5 46 (11.86%) Architect
6 43 (11.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (10.82%) Linux Engineer
8 37 (9.54%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (9.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 30 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (7.47%) Software Engineer
10 29 (7.47%) Systems Engineer
11 28 (7.22%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 24 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
13 23 (5.93%) AWS Architect
14 20 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
15 18 (4.64%) Senior Linux Engineer
16 17 (4.38%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.05%) React
2 36 (9.28%) Node.js
3 33 (8.51%) REST
4 32 (8.25%) RabbitMQ
5 29 (7.47%) Spring
5 29 (7.47%) Spring Boot
6 28 (7.22%) AngularJS
6 28 (7.22%) gRPC
6 28 (7.22%) Material-UI
6 28 (7.22%) OpenAPI
6 28 (7.22%) Swagger
7 21 (5.41%) .NET
8 20 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (3.61%) YAML
10 13 (3.35%) HTML
10 13 (3.35%) OAuth
11 11 (2.84%) Keycloak
11 11 (2.84%) XML
12 10 (2.58%) ARM Templates
13 8 (2.06%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 54 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 50 (12.89%) Public Cloud
3 37 (9.54%) Linux Command Line
4 25 (6.44%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (4.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 15 (3.87%) Clustering
9 8 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.29%) PKI
11 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.77%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.52%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 281 (72.42%) Linux
2 141 (36.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 127 (32.73%) Windows
4 66 (17.01%) CentOS
5 38 (9.79%) Unix
6 34 (8.76%) Debian
7 33 (8.51%) Ubuntu
8 22 (5.67%) Windows Server
9 19 (4.90%) CoreOS
10 7 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (1.55%) Mesosphere
11 6 (1.55%) Windows 10
11 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.77%) SUSE
12 3 (0.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.77%) VMS
13 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (67.01%) DevOps
2 153 (39.43%) Configuration Management
3 135 (34.79%) Agile
4 126 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 114 (29.38%) CI/CD
6 110 (28.35%) Containerisation
7 90 (23.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 81 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (15.46%) Open Source
10 59 (15.21%) Collaborative Working
11 55 (14.18%) Actionable Insight
12 54 (13.92%) Microservices
13 43 (11.08%) Time Management
14 40 (10.31%) Mentoring
14 40 (10.31%) Software Architecture
15 39 (10.05%) Scrum
16 37 (9.54%) Kanban
17 36 (9.28%) Continuous Integration
18 35 (9.02%) Test Automation
19 34 (8.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 279 (71.91%) Python
2 176 (45.36%) Bash
3 118 (30.41%) PowerShell
4 114 (29.38%) Java
5 49 (12.63%) Perl
6 47 (12.11%) JavaScript
7 32 (8.25%) Ruby
8 23 (5.93%) Go
9 19 (4.90%) SQL
10 16 (4.12%) PHP
11 15 (3.87%) C#
11 15 (3.87%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.32%) C++
12 9 (2.32%) Korn
12 9 (2.32%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.06%) Groovy
14 5 (1.29%) C
15 4 (1.03%) Lua
15 4 (1.03%) Tcl
16 3 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 156 (40.21%) Security Cleared
2 109 (28.09%) DV Cleared
3 77 (19.85%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.96%) Degree
5 24 (6.19%) AWS Certification
6 20 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.06%) RHCE
11 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.80%) CCNA
12 5 (1.29%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.77%) Linux+ Certification
14 2 (0.52%) CCNP
14 2 (0.52%) JNCIP
15 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.26%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.87%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 181 (46.65%) Docker
2 90 (23.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (14.43%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (4.90%) vSphere
5 18 (4.64%) Active Directory
6 14 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (2.84%) KVM
8 7 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.80%) VirtualBox
9 5 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (1.29%) DFS Replication
10 4 (1.03%) XenApp
10 4 (1.03%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.77%) Ceph
11 3 (0.77%) Gluster
11 3 (0.77%) oVirt
12 2 (0.52%) Varnish
13 1 (0.26%) etcd
Systems Management
1 330 (85.05%) Ansible
2 242 (62.37%) Kubernetes
3 195 (50.26%) Terraform
4 135 (34.79%) Progress Chef
5 27 (6.96%) Grafana
5 27 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 27 (6.96%) vCenter Server
6 20 (5.15%) Nagios
6 20 (5.15%) ZABBIX
7 16 (4.12%) Consul
7 16 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (3.09%) HAProxy
9 11 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (2.84%) Packer
9 11 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (2.84%) Salt
10 9 (2.32%) Graphite
11 7 (1.80%) Kibana
12 6 (1.55%) Podman
12 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 135 (34.79%) Red Hat
2 101 (26.03%) VMware
3 43 (11.08%) Google
4 42 (10.82%) SaltStack
5 41 (10.57%) Microsoft
6 31 (7.99%) Cisco
7 18 (4.64%) New Relic
7 18 (4.64%) Splunk
8 16 (4.12%) Fortinet
9 13 (3.35%) Juniper
9 13 (3.35%) Oracle
10 11 (2.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (2.32%) Citrix
11 9 (2.32%) TOWER Software
12 8 (2.06%) Arista
12 8 (2.06%) Tufin
13 7 (1.80%) ForgeRock
13 7 (1.80%) Zscaler
14 5 (1.29%) Sun
14 5 (1.29%) Veeam